ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with certain modern developments that have arisen in the human psyche and in the human mind and which tend to disintegrate the human personality from within. It mentions the new phenomenon of collective consciousness, a consciousness present in institutionalized knowledge, be it scientific findings, searchings and applications, be it the various organizational and administrative institutions of the highly systematized social life. The trans-personality of the institutional knowledge and of its technological embodiments is a prerequisite for the impersonality or rather non-personality of that anonymous coldest consciousness and for its peculiar relations to individual human beings. Collective consciousness, being itself depersonalized, objectified and objective to the extreme, turns every fact of life and of man which it handles into an object. The decisive factor is the presence of the second consciousness which registers the achievement through the measuring tape, the stop watch, the electric current, or the camera lens.
